Dolly's dedication to her image has helped push the small town country girl up the ranks from gifted singer and songwriter to international icon complete with her own Dolly-branded theme park.

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It's a fusion of word and film that has taken the interior life of a teenage girl, and a small town on the Western edge of the United States, and placed them at the center of the world.

FORBES: Medialand

Happy Now tells the story of a policeman (Gruffudd) who arrives in the small Welsh town and becomes involved in the unsolved murder of a girl 14 years earlier.

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Lawson's world is populated by small-town folk with big hearts, men who fall for the girl next door and never forget her.

NPR: Doyle Lawson, Digging Deep

One performance strikes some sparks, if only in spurts: Mandy Moore's Sally, a small-town girl who emerges as Omer's main singing competition on the show.

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Consider a case report in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery of a three-year-old girl who fell into an icy fishpond in a small Austrian town in the Alps.

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